The operator of the Achilleus bulk carrier has agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine in a case where the ship’s engineers dumped oily waste into the ocean and then covered up the pollution...

According to Newsweek report, a 4,000-ton cruise ship was blocked from entering a port in Dublin, Ireland, by a small sailing boat of drunk men zigzagging in its way, a court has heard. What happened? Dublin...

The captain of a river cruise ship involved in a deadly collision last week with a smaller pleasure boat in Budapest is already under investigation over another accident in April, according to Hungarian prosecutors,...

According to a National Geographic article by JOEL K. BOURNE, JR., hope swirled through the packed gymnasium of the aptly named Robert Hope Community Center in the Africatown neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama, last month,...

According to an article published in the Maritime Digitalisation and Communications,  AP Moller-Maersk is leading a pilot project to test using digital certificates for seafarers on one of their container ships. About the digital certificates project ...

According to a Platts article, the global bunker supplier Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions has announced that they have successfully conducted several trials of their 0.5% sulfur fuel oil with shipowners at key ports...

For some cruise ship workers, interacting with passengers can be a blessing and a curse. Mark Matousek writes about the experience of 39 current and former cruise ship employees, in an article published in...

In a recent development, the International Maritime Organization’s MEPC, Marine Environment Protection Committee, announced that they will investigate open-looped scrubbers' discharge, in particular, the environmental impact of the washwater, reports The MediTelegraph Why this move? Some...

The Spring/Summer 2019 issue of International Cruise & Ferry Review published suggestions given by YSA Design chairman Trond Sigurdsen, why cruise lines could pay more attention to how they design interiors to attract more...

Chevron plans to bring an IMO-compliant 0.5% sulphur shipping fuel blend to the market by the end of the third quarter, reports Reuters. Stringent IMO 2020 regulation Ships will be required to use fuels with a...